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Notes Highest Scoring Wards Wanted To Stake Committees on Special Activities: Please send at once to General Secretary Moroni Snow the name of the two wards in your stake scoring highest number of points in the reading course per their enrollment. Give name of ward, exact number of points scored, and also the joint enrollment. This

EDITORS' TABLE 657 request is made for the purpose of determining which two as- sociations are entitled to the sets of books to be given by the Deseret Sunday School Union and Deseret News Book Stores. No reports will be considered after May 25. The Best Essay on the Utah Pioneers The Improvement Era offers a prize of $25 to any person not under eighteen nor over twenty-five years of age, for the best essay on the Utah Pioneers. The essay should be written as an appreciation of the Pio- neers. It should contain some one point of appreciation, with two or more associated and related points subsidiary to the leading point. The leading point might be suggested and selected from the religious, economic, or sociological results accruing to the pres- ent generation from the labors of the Pioneers. It might treat on what present day citizens have received as a legacy from the Pioneers, such as inspirations to loyalty, or to any other di- vision of character, like spiritual growth, love of truth, chastity, charity, respect for authority, knowledge of God, courage, genu- ine success, the lasting verities, and many other kindred topics which will suggest themselves to you. Historical and eulogistic views are not so much what we want as an appreciation of the values, to the present generation, that have accrued from the toils, lives, and labors of the Pio- neers, and the inspiration that we have received from their loyalty, their love of God, and of the truth, or from any other excellencies in their character. You can gather from these remarks about what we desire in this essay. It should, of course, be founded on one topic which should be well developed, in from two to four thousand words, and be in the hands of the editor by June 1, 1917. Baby Week Will be celebrated throughout the United States, May 1 to 6, unless other dates are chosen and announced through the newspapers. This will be a nation wide campaign inaugurated by the Childrens' Bureau, Department of Labor of the Gov- ernment, and co-operated in by various organizations, with the two fold purpose (1) to give the mothers and fathers of a com- munity the opportunity of learning the most important facts with regard to the care of the baby; (2) to bring home to the community a knowledge of the facts regarding the needless deaths of its babies, and a realization of the ways in which it must protect them. It is hoped that all persons, as well as organizations, will unite to effect some permanent good for the babies.